The 3D body scanner at Manchester Metropolitan University looks a bit like those photo booths you get in shopping centres. But using it is totally different.

First of all you have to strip down to just your underwear, which is a bit embarrassing. Then you get into the box. You have to stand exactly on a pair of footprints on the floor and hold some handles that look like walking sticks.

A relaxing message and some nice classical music start playing. Then loads of lights flash all around you (they're not that bright!). Before you know it - the scan is all over!

Stand very still

This is Adam's complete scan. He has a full waist, apparently

You have to stand very, very still but it only takes about five seconds.

Waiting on the computer outside is a computer graphic of your body.

It is EXTREMELY strange seeing yourself in 3D. The measuring experts can spin it round so that you can look at yourself from every angle you can imagine.

They said that I had a "full waist" and that both halves of my body were the same size and shape. I'm not sure if either of those are good things.

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Adam's full report

The scanning machine can take 200 measurements in an instant.

It's all part of a project to measure 6,000 children across the UK so that clothes shops can update their sizes to modern today's body shapes."